Seven Dead After SUV Plowed Into a Texas Crowd

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Seven Dead After SUV Plowed Into a Texas Crowd

(Headline USA) Seven people were killed and up to six were injured Sunday after they were struck by a vehicle while waiting at a city bus stop outside of a migrant shelter in the border city of Brownsville, Texas, police said.

Brownsville police investigator Martin Sandoval said the crash happened about 8:30 a.m.

Shelter director Victor Maldonado of the Bishop Enrique San Pedro Ozanam Center said he reviewed the shelter’s surveillance video on Sunday morning after receiving a call about the crash.

The city bus stop is across the street from the shelter and is not marked. There was no bench, and people waiting there were sitting along the curb, Maldonado said.

“What we see in the video is that this SUV, a Range Rover, just ran the light that was about 100 feet away and just went through the people who were sitting there in the bus stop,” Maldonado said.

He said the SUV flipped after running up on the curb and continued moving for about 200 feet (about 60 meters). Some people who were walking on the sidewalk about 30 feet away from the main group were also hit, Maldonado said.

The Ozanam shelter is the only overnight shelter in the city of Brownsville and manages the release of thousands of illegal immigrants from federal custody.

Brownsville has long been an epicenter for migration across the U.S.-Mexico border, and it has become a key location for next week’s ending of the pandemic-era border restrictions known as Title 42.

Sandoval told KRGV-TV that authorities are investigating whether the crash was intentional or an accident.

They are also testing the driver, who was held at the scene by witnesses, for intoxication.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

MTV Ditches Live Show Because of Writer’s Strike

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MTV Ditches Live Show Because of Writer’s Strike

(Headline USA) The first big live awards show to air during the current screenwriters’ strike has retreated to a pre-taped event as the MTV Movie & TV Awards tries to chart a celebratory course through a turbulent Hollywood.

The Sunday show already had lost its host, Drew Barrymore, who dropped out in solidarity with the writers and the show’s red carpet was rolled up.

The Writers Guild still promised to picket, meaning stars and presenters would have to walk past demonstrating writers to get into the venue.

Late Saturday, MTV scrapped the live event entirely.

“We’re pivoting away from a live event that still enables us to produce a memorable night full of exclusive sneak peaks, irreverent categories our audience has come to expect, and countless moments that will both surprise and delight,” said Bruce Gillmer, an MTV executive producer, in a statement.

The strike has also crippled late night television shows, which rely heavily on writers.

The taped show still intends to have: a  best movie category and a best TV show.

In individual categories, best performance in a movie and best performance in a TV show are planned to receive awards.

Other categories for the golden popcorn statuette include best hero, best villain, best comedic performance, best kiss, breakthrough performance, best fight, most frightened performance, best duo, best movie song, best competition series and best host.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Tucker Carlson is Ready to ‘Attack’ Fox News with Elon Musk

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Tucker Carlson is Ready to ‘Attack’ Fox News with Elon Musk

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Ex-Fox News superstar Tucker Carlson decided to fight against Fox News by using help from Elon Musk.

According to a new report from Axios, Carlson is ready to “unleash allies” on Fox News so that he would be able to secure his future by “bullying” the network into letting him either work for or start working for a “right-wing rival.”

“The idea that anyone is going to silence Tucker and prevent him from speaking to his audience is beyond preposterous,” Bryan Freedman, the high-powered Hollywood lawyer Carlson retained for the contract dispute, said.

The battle between Carlson and the Murdock empire may reshape the conservative news world. Fox, whose ratings have been steadily plunging in Carlson’s time slot since he was fired 13 days ago, wants to sideline Carlson by paying him $20 million a year for not working at all.

According to Axios, Carlson is planning to establish a media empire of his own, which would look like a direct-to-consumer media outlet where his fans could pay money to watch his coverage of what’s going on in this world. However, to do that, he needs Fox to let him out of his contract, which will expire only in January of 2025 — after the 2024 presidential election.

Axios stated that Carlson has been contacted by different outlets — including the conservative Rumble and controlled opposition in the face of Newsmax — that offered to pay him more than Fox offered him in its contract.

The news source also learned that Carlson and Musk talked about working together, but didn’t discuss specifics.

Two days after being fired from the network for saying things that globalist Murdock didn’t want him to say, Carlson posted a video on Twitter at 8 p.m. ET, counter-programming his former show. As of May 7, the two-minute video got more than 80 million views.

Droves of Black Voters Leave Biden

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Droves of Black Voters Leave Biden

(Headline USA) After a dismal start to his 2020 presidential campaign, Black voters in South Carolina rallied behind Joe Biden, reviving his White House ambitions by driving his Democratic rivals from the race and ultimately putting him on a path to ‘defeating’ then-President Donald Trump.

However, at the outset of Biden’s reelection bid, the conflicting views among the same voters provide an early warning sign of the challenges he faces as he aims to revive the diverse coalition that proved so crucial to him before.

Black voters formed the heart of Biden’s base of support and any dip in support could prove consequential in some of the most fiercely competitive states, such as Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin.

Well aware of the challenge, the Biden campaign says it’s confident in its message and is planning to highlight how the president has prioritized issues that are important to Black Americans.

“The progress made in the first two years — whether it’s the historically low black unemployment rate, unprecedented funding to HBCUs, or halving the black poverty rate in half — is all at stake in 2024,” campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz said in an emailed statement. “The campaign will work hard to earn every vote, and expand on its winning 2020 coalition.”

Yet there are some early signs that Biden will have work to do to generate enthusiasm among Black voters for another run.

Biden’s approval rating among Black adults has fluctuated over his two years in office. As with most demographic groups, the latest Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds his 58% current approval rating among Black adults sitting well below where he began. Roughly 9 in 10 Black adults approved of Biden over his first months in office.

While only about half of Democrats overall say they want Biden to run again in 2024, 81% say they would definitely or probably support him if he were the nominee. The groundswell isn’t as stark among Black adults: 41% say they want him to run and only 55% say they are likely to support him in the general election.

APVoteCast, an extensive national survey of the electorate, also found that support for Republican candidates ticked up slightly among Black voters during last year’s elections, even though those voters overwhelmingly supported Democrats.

South Carolina provides an early barometer on how Black voters are viewing Biden shortly after his quiet campaign launch, via a video message late last month.

After his 2020 campaign was rescued, Biden rewarded the Black voters who are decisive in South Carolina Democratic politics by moving the state to the head of the party’s nominating schedule next year. He also followed through with his campaign pledge to appoint the first Black woman to the Supreme Court.

But interviews two years into his presidency with more than a dozen Black voters representing a variety of ages and backgrounds reveal mixed views, especially between older and younger voters.

Many younger voters said they aren’t convinced that Biden has delivered on their most important priorities.

“He wouldn’t have been president without us,” said Courtney McClain, a 22-year-old recent graduate of the University of South Carolina, who voted for Biden in 2020, her first presidential election.

Escaping her legal obligations to repay her loans, both for her bachelor’s degree and a planned master’s program, is a top priority for her. She applauds Biden’s attempt at a college loan forgiveness program, but is frustrated that the plan is now in doubt after it was challenged in the courts by Republicans.

“I definitely think moving forward, if he wants to promise something as large as that, I think he should put the steps in place to make sure that he’s able to go through with that before he just says it out loud,” McClain said.

Many younger voters also cited the economy, especially lowering inflation, as a top priority. Several noted a lack of enthusiasm among their peers for a second Biden run, even while acknowledging they didn’t see a realistic alternative. But they wondered how lackluster support might affect turnout next year.

“For people to vote, and to be eager to vote, you have to actually want to vote for the person,” said Ace Conyers, a 22-year-old at South Carolina State.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Dem Candidate Doubles Down on Criticizing Parents Who Oppose Indoctrination in Schools

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Dem Candidate Doubles Down on Criticizing Parents Who Oppose Indoctrination in Schools

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A Democratic Virginia House of Delegates candidate doubled down on her 18-month-old statement in a video where she stated that parents don’t have a right to say what their children should or should not learn in schools.

In 2021, before the governor’s race in Virginia, Jessica Anderson made a video about “some of the parents that live in Virginia” saying that they should “not be dictating what [their] daughter and son’s curriculums look like.”

“I’m sorry, but I’ve seen some of the parents that live in Virginia,” Anderson said in a 2021 video that was reposted to Twitter on Thursday.

“You should not… be dictating what your daughter and son’s curriculums look like. If you want to do that, there is a thing called homeschooling. Indoctrinate them there but not in my kids’ public schools.”

The same day when an old video was reposted Anderson recorded another video, but instead of apologizing, she doubled down on her previous remarks.

“I advocate for families being involved in their student’s education, every day,” Anderson said.

“And despite me working in the front office of a school for the last five years and having a front-seat view of how education is functioning, I realize I am not intellectually sound to be writing the curriculum that is taught to my children.”

“Now, I absolutely support myself and other parents being involved, asking about books, asking about the curriculum, having parent-teacher conferences, attending PTA meetings, going to the school board meetings,” she added.

“This is important, I want you to take an active role in your child’s education, but again, you shouldn’t be writing the curriculum, and that’s what the video was about.”

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin‘s spokeswoman Macaulay Porter shared her opinion regarding the viral videos, according to the Daily Caller.

“Yet again, left-liberal progressives are making it clear that they don’t want parents to have a say in their child’s education,” she said.

“Virginians across the Commonwealth continue to reject candidates that seek to shut parents out, indoctrinate our kids and lower expectations of our students.”

Update: Oregon Republican’s Boycott of the Legislature Enters 5th Day

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Update: Oregon Republican’s Boycott of the Legislature Enters 5th Day

(Headline USA) A walkout by most Republican members of the Oregon Senate reached a fifth straight day Saturday.

The Republican legislators report that they are protesting Democrats failure to adhere to the state’s legal requirement that bills must be written in clear and simple language.

Oregon Republicans say Democrats have failed to adhere to, and refuse to comply with, a 1979 Oregon law that requires bill summaries to be readable by those with an eighth or ninth-grade education, determined by a score of 60 on the Flesch readability score.

Republicans say that they just discovered the law, and intend to ensure all bills follow its requirements.

Democrats accuse these Republicans of being disingenuous. Rather, they suggest, Republicans are delaying action by the majority Democrats on bills on gun control, infanticide and gender-bending ‘health’ treatments.

In Oregon, the legislature requires a 2/3’s majority, and in the Senate, that means 20 members, thus the GOP’s boycott prevented a quorum, and Senate President Rob Wagner adjourned the body until Sunday morning.

If Republicans refuse to show up to the capital, then they could kill the radical leftist bills proposed by the body’s Democrats.

If Republican lawmakers do kill the bill this way, then they’ll pay a heavy price for doing so. Last November, voters approved a ballot measure that bans lawmakers with 10 unexcused absences from running for reelection.

The boycott comes as several statehouses around the nation, including in Montana and Tennessee, have become battlegrounds between conservatives and liberals.

Oregon has increasingly been divided between liberal population centers like Portland and Eugene and its mostly conservative rural areas.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Texas University Removes Orwellian Language Guide that Replaced ‘Women’ with ‘Wimmin’

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Texas University Removes Orwellian Language Guide that Replaced ‘Women’ with ‘Wimmin’

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The University of Texas at Austin [UT Austin] removed a language guide that offered woke spellings of the word “women” from its webpage.

According to an archived version of the website dated late May 2, UT Austin’s Financial and Administrative Services had a glossary of terms called “Language Matters” that was published on its website as part of its “Diversity Commitment.” However, since May 3, the link now redirects to its Diversity Commitment website, which outlines the department’s commitment to “equity, diversity and inclusion.”

“Having a common language for talking about and across differences is important for mutual understanding and partnership. The language of diversity is evolving and requires awareness, understanding and skill,” the archived website states.

“This glossary, though not exhaustive, is a tool to give you the words and meanings to help make conversations easier, respectful and empowering.”

“Wimmin” was one of the terms that were introduced in the glossary as an alternative spelling that is “used by feminists to avoid the word ending ‘-men.’” Another term was “womxn” which was defined as “a term sometimes used to replace the word women to get away from patriarchal language” that also is “inclusive of trans women and non-binary people, but it is not always accepted.”

The glossary also included the term “womyn” which has the same definition as the word “wimmin.”

The glossary was discovered by Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Christopher Rufo, according to the Daily Caller. He posted a screenshot of the “wimmin” definition on Twitter and stated that the university thinks that the new phrase is “empowering.”

Rufo then pointed out that UT Austin removed the guide from its website because leftists in the university got “scared.”

“After I caught them recommending the word ‘wimmin’ in place of ‘women,’ University of Texas administrators have removed their ‘Language Matters’ guide from the university website,” Rufo wrote.

“Unfortunately for them, I’ve archived the page and will report more next week.”

Biden Gets Defensive on Hunter, Poll Slump in Softball Interview

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Biden Gets Defensive on Hunter, Poll Slump in Softball Interview

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) In a soft-ball Friday interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, President Joe Biden went on the defensive when asked about his scathing low polls, the criminal investigations into Hunter Biden and debt ceiling negotiations with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. 

The far-left host asked the president if McCarthy was an honest broker amid negotiations about the debt ceiling. Biden responded by calling McCarthy an honest individual but accusing him of selling “away everything” to Republicans. 

“I think he’s an honest man,” Biden responded. “I think he’s in a position, though. He had to make a deal that was pretty, you know, 15 votes. Fifteen votes where he just about sold away everything that he, that the far, far right.” 

Biden accused what he called “MAGA Republicans” of bulldozing McCarthy around. 

“There’s a Republican Party and there’s the MAGA Republicans, and the MAGA Republicans really have put him in a position where in order to stay speaker, he has to agree, he’s agreed to things that maybe he believes, but are just extreme,” Biden continued.

Biden’s remarks come days after he invited congressional leaders to speak on the nation’s debt and increasing the debt ceiling. McCarthy and Biden have not met since February. 

While the president claimed he is open to discussing long-term solutions to the debt, the White House admitted that the debt ceiling is non-negotiable.  

In the same interview, Ruhle asked Biden about his low poll numbers despite what she called leftist accomplishments.  

“Why do you think you more credit for it, why do you think your polling is where it is?” the MSNBC host asked, later adding, “Sentiment in this country despite all these wins is not very good.” 

Deflecting to the answer, Biden blamed the media for not covering him fairly. 

“All they’ve heard is negative views for three years,” Biden claimed. “I’m not being critical of the press. You turn on the television. The only way you’re going to get a hit is if it’s something negative.”

Concluding the interview, Ruhle asked Biden about the criminal and congressional investigations surrounding his son Hunter Biden. 

“Sir, there is something personal that’s affecting you,” Rule said. “Your son, while there’s no ties to you, could be charged by your Department of Justice. How would that impact your presidency?” 

Biden quickly defended the embattled first son, clearing him of any wrongdoing. 

“First of all, my son’s done nothing wrong,” Biden concluded. “I trust him, I have faith in him, and it impacts my presidency by making me feel proud of him.” 

Update: Graphic Video Shows Texas Mall Shooter after Neutralization

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Update: Graphic Video Shows Texas Mall Shooter after Neutralization

Note: The video below may be considered graphic and upsetting to some. It is Headline USA’s policy to use its platform to stigmatize and shame mass murderers as a means of social deterrence even after they have paid the ultimate consequence.

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Nine individuals were killed by a mass shooter at an outlet mall in Allen, a Dallas suburb in Texas, law enforcement announced Saturday. Several others were rushed to the hospital with critical injuries. 

Allen Fire Department chief Jonathan Boyd said four of the injured are in stable condition, but three are still critically injured after the gunman dressed in all-black tactical gear opened fire in the Allen Premium Outlet mall’s parking lot. The shooter was shot and killed by an officer present in the parking lot. 

“Nine victims were transported to local hospitals by Allen Fire Department,” the Allen Police Department confirmed on Twitter. “A multi-agency response helped secure the mall. There is no longer an active threat. A reunification point has been created on Chelsea Boulevard.” 

Part of the mass shooting was captured on a chilling dash camera, the New York Post reported Saturday. (Warning: Graphic content) 

A spokesperson for Medical City Healthcare, a local hospital, told Fox-affiliated Fox 4 Dallas that they are treating eight victims aged between 5 and 61. 

“Our hearts are with the individuals and families impacted by this tragic event,” local law enforcement said. “Another briefing will be provided later this evening with additional details.” 

A mother described the harrowing experience to a local news outlet, saying she heard popping sounds and saw sparks. 

“We were outside the Converse Store and we just heard all this popping,” Elaine Penicaro said to Fox 4. “We kind of all just stopped, and then a second later, just ‘Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop,’ and there were sparks flying like it was right in front of us.” 

Disturbing footage has emerged of the purported shooter following his demise from a police officer’s gunfire. (Warning: Graphic content). 

This is a developing story.

TX Mayor Braces for Migrant ‘Hurricane’ Amid Title 42’s End

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TX Mayor Braces for Migrant ‘Hurricane’ Amid Title 42’s End

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Laredo Mayor Dr. Victor Trevino declared a city-wide state of emergency in anticipation of the expiration of Title 42 on May 11, emphasizing in an interview with Cavuto Live that the city is preparing for an influx of immigrants comparable to a formidable “hurricane.”

“As we saw, the migrant crossings are not here in Laredo,” Dr. Trevino told Fox News host Neil Cavuto Saturday. “They’re in other border cities, but they will be transferred to Laredo for processing. The situation is like a hurricane coming. We have to brace for it, and the border situation is very fluid.”

The mayor expressed concerns about the looming surge of border crossings, highlighting the city’s unpreparedness to manage the chaos. Laredo is in close proximity to the U.S.-Mexican border.

“Basically the numbers keep moving up and we’re preparing to bus some up to northern cities that have received more funding and have more capacity,” Dr. Trevino continued.  “So that’s where we are. NGOs have received funding from federal government, but the capacity for problems is our situation.” 

“Our community is compassionate, of course, but we cannot have the economic or hospital resources to absorb all the transfers, and we have been speaking to Congressman Henry Cuellar that is speaking to Secretary Mayorkas about this situation,” The Laredo mayor said. 

The Trump-era policy known as Title 42 has been implemented since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and granting border patrol the authority to swiftly deport undocumented immigrants based on health emergency grounds. 

President Biden attempted to end Title 42 through an order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but after receiving a lawsuit from GOP-led states, the administration opted to let the Trump-era policy expired on May 11. 

President Biden initially sought to terminate Title 42 by means of an executive order. However, due to a lawsuit filed by several Republican-led states, Biden ultimately decided to allow the immigration policy to expire. 

Republicans say that lifting Title 42 would make the already crisis-ridden border worse. 

“We need to keep Title 42 and make certain that we build the wall,” Sen. Masha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said on Twitter last month. 

Support for a border wall was echoed by Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, who took to Twitter to call for border security. 

“The Biden Administration spends $130,000 a day to store unused border wall materials,” Gooden said on April 29. “With Title 42 ending, let’s stop wasting tax dollars and start building the wall.” 

Dr. Trevino has previously pleaded for more resources for border cities. 

Watch the full interview below:

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